Pretty much this, and add the whole old Trope related to combat which is '‘rince and repeat’ do a Malak dance! from Kotor 1. Fight, run away, leech something, come back, run away, leech, …
Urgh…so boring.
He could’ve been so much more, considering he was indoctrinated too. But that’s BW life story ‘Could’ve been…never scratched the real potentiel’.
He fought with a gun…beside he was dying anyway lol
Wait…Thane could do biotic? I though he was trained by the Hanar to be an assassin? sheesh…
Personally, I had fun with those…watch call it? The one who go invisible and had a big sword? Oh man, those were fun to fight. I hated the one sniping from afar then start running left&right like all weird…lol
I wish shepard said something like ‘‘This is for being a pain in my ass you loser’’. I mean, what if you don’t care about Thane? Akward…
Bioware will never admit but that’s a side effect of how the make games, lores and stories: the school of “I’m making things up as I go”
Technically he’s a biotic sniper in ME2… but no one remember it because any biotic or sniper in your party is better than him. Also from a gameplay perspective he’s usefull only in raising the survive score in the Suicide Mission.
I think Shepard can actually say something like that… But in order to hear it: Thane and Kirrahe must be already dead before ME3 (meaning the Salarian councelor will die no mutter What) and Miranda must either be already dead or survive ME3; in this scenario Kai Leng will not kill anyone worth to be mentioned by Shepard
Yeah like seeing The Illusive man back in ME3, and he has all these weird stuff around his neck. And not a peep? No ‘‘wow what happen to your neck? Did someone drop shit on it? Black Goo?’’
Oh yeah! I remember now. When we are chasing him, he is the one who snipe from afar as we are climbing that tower. But we quickly forget cause Garrus is calibrating his black widow nearby
Anyway, back to Trope and stories you hate:
Hm, I was talking with a friend yesterday about a game (old one) and that reminded me of something that utterly pissed me off like hell.
Now Imagine if in the Lord of the ring movies, everyone is talking about the damn evil ring that must be destroyed. And here we come say near mid way through the movie. And that Elf-Smith show up and tell you ‘‘No no no, we had a meeting after you left young Hobbit! We shall not destroy the ring after all’’ then he take the ring away, and go back in the Matrix of the elves. Leaving you baffled.
Instead, you are told to join aragorn and lady Galdrielle and everyone else because you gonna help attack that damn EYE of Sauron.
Wouldn’t that piss you off? Thats what happen in the game I played. It was NWN2 - Mask of the Betrayer expansion. Whole fucking game, everyone harp about the damn Wall of the faithless…just to have Bozo god show up and say ‘nope. Its staying. I like it. Now go back to your quest whatever it is…it was just used to drive you to here so i can show my Smexy mask! now shoo!’’ .
If you didn’t play the game, don’t click the blurred part cause massive spoiler. I did love, but LOVE the mask of the betrayer expansion of NWN2 and I highly recommend it. But man, that part? Pissed me off.
Oh yeah, while I’m thinking about it, I’m pretty sure Miranda is another case of author’s OC, because even though the suicide mission is marketed as “anybody, including Shepard, can die,” Miranda is the one companion who, for no good reason, WILL NOT DIE. Oh sure, she’ll look like she’s dying, but then she’ll inexplicably show back up like nothing happened. I let her get dragged off by the swarm once, just to test the claim, and sure enough, there she was, back in my team like it had never happened.
You can eventually kill her for real, you just have to work questionably hard at it, like with Liara one game later who is also inexplicably invincible until the very end.
I followed her advice and end up with Jack getting kidnapped…last time I follow her advice
Okay found this for you:
She cannot die until the hold the line part, period. After that she loses her plot armor and can die as a member of your final squad (100% certain if she’s not loyal) or if she is part of the hold the line group and the numbers work out so that she should .).
so yeah, it can be done. I like to keep everyone alive, even the ones that annoy me to hell and can’t stand.
Anyway back to Topic before I get scolded lol
1- The narrator in a game always has to be a ‘Dude’ and must have a ‘grave yet sexy voice’. I noticed that when in POE2 they made the narrator a woman and everyone bitched about it.
It runs counter to the page title, but I wanna jump in here to say that one of the very few tropes I love is the gunslinger that protects the idea of a firearm from public knowledge as best they can.
Whether its Percy from critical role, the nation of Alkenstar in Golarion, or the general vibe of gunslingers in pathfinder being protective of their weapons overall, it just adds something to the whole lonesome wanderer vibe that I just adore.
The fact that its the high fantasy version of an alternate path to power along the same lines as anime characters like Mifune from Soul Eater or Might Guy from Naruto probably has something to do with it.
Playing devils advocate but Kai Leng does kinda have an advantage if he was actually half as good as he thought he was. Monomolecular blades in the Mass effect universe are supposed to be able to cut through most armors and not have to worry about shields. Part of the reason why phantoms can one shot us if they get in close. That being said, Kai Leng was undeveloped compared to his nook counterpart, i think.
Standard grip is used mainly for slashing, thrusting, and blocking attacks. Reverse grip (or icepick grip) is used mainly for stabbing and trapping limbs to allow your main sword hand to finish off an opponent
Yeah, it’s like I said, the elements were there for Kai to not be shit, at least in combat, but like the rest of his character, BioWare screwed it up. I’d have slightly forgiven him existing at all if he were at least fun to fight, but he’s a loser in and out of combat.
Also, he features in a Mass Effect book that has the dumbest possible plot. It’s supposed to be a prequel, I think, to the third game, and it features (among other things) Kai breaking into an apartment, eating the dude’s cereal who lives there, peeing in one of their vases, and then later killing another character with a toothbrush. His nonsense is only slightly offset by the other main character of the book, who’s a biotic Mary Sue who tries to, of all things, pick a fight with Aria T’Loak, you know, only the biggest mob boss in the galaxy who has a small army at her beck and call and commando training besides, what could possibly go wrong with that plan?
It’s a really bad book, is what I’m saying.
(Also the book is called Mass Effect: Deception, I had to look it up because I forgot the name.)
Yeah, I admit, that’s one was pretty good. But that’s the only bone I’m throwing Kai.
for me, and I mean really ‘for me personally…’ I would have tolerated all his bullshit in ME3 if in the end after we stab him, we dump his body at Aria T’loak feet and tell her the truth we found. Hell, that final fight they could’ve made it we find the truth from those terminals or Aria somehow finally figure it out and join us for the fight against him.
After playing Swtor, it really feel (To me) that BW almost like hate the players in favor of their characters. It may sound absurd, but that is how it come off. I don’t know if its due to lack of imagination, or resources, or motivations, or just bad writing skills…(or all of these things mixed together).
It didn’t feel like that in ME trilogy, but it did feel like that in MEA. And in Swtor it started with that crappy expansion ‘Kotfe&Kotet’.
Man, if it had been that instead of their “let’s just casually rewrite the entire Star Wars canon and make it so our super cool empire with blackjack and hookers beats up both the Jedi and the Sith and the players become the new emperors at the end,” I’d have played the hell out of that expansion.
Also, the fact that they spent so much time making it have so many dramatic cutscenes meant that I could barely play it in the first place. One of the reasons I liked SWTOR is that I could play it on my old crappy laptop and still have it run well due to its low graphics requirements, then KOTFE came along and ruined all that. I’m still salty.
Well there are some compressed air rifles around in the setting. They’re pretty important to my mc’s/
As for fantasy cultures with guns Pillars of Eternity has them…they’re even more prominent in its age of sail themed successor Deadfire. It worked pretty well there, imho, so I’m hoping more people will incorporate guns and other technology into fantasy settings.
